The American company Virgin Galactic from February 16 will start selling tickets for suborbital flights. This was reported on the company's website.
The company expects around a thousand people to buy tickets from here the start of the flights. The cost of one ticket is 450,000 dollars, while the future space tourist must pay 150,000 dollars immediately as a deposit, the rest of the amount must be paid before the flight of the year. The company notes that this is due to the need to upgrade the Eve carrier aircraft and commission the second Imagine spacecraft. It is planned that in 2023 the existing Unity and Imagine aircraft will perform three tourist flights per month.
Recall that the first flight of the Unity spacecraft took place in July of last year. The spacecraft went into suborbital space and reached the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space, after which it returned to Earth. On board were billionaire Richard Branson, three astronauts and two test pilots.